Working Online At Home? TimeWasters To Avoid
Posted on August 20, 2008
Filed Under blogging, general, working at home |
Working from the home is an ideal situation. It saves you time commuting to and from work, it cuts down considerably on overhead expenses such as rental, staff, and utilities such as electricity, phone and internet expenditure.
The unfortunate problem is discipline. In order for you to function at home as you normally would in the office, you have to treat your home, or least your homeoffice, as an office. You need to get up early as you would normally do for the office. The tendency is for one to wake up pretty late if the office is just in the next room to your bedroom. Get your butt up once the alarm clock rings…. get yourself washed and shaved as soon as possible. Get the energy into you. Now you’ve got yourself all prepped, go to your homeoffice ( the assumption is that you have a room dedicated for your work, without the usual distractions). Start working. Cut out the distractions. Some major timewasters are listed below:
1. The phone. Stay off the phone - you can spend hours on the phone with your friends chatting away about totally useless non-income producing topics. Cut off the conversations to a quick 2 minute chat. Tell your friends you have a deadline to meet. This usually helps keep them away.
2. Stop checking your email - one of the greatest timewasters. There is so much info and spam getting sent your way that you can spend valuable time getting entertained by what’s online.
3. Get the children out of the way - tell the loving kids that daddy or mommy is working to bring food to the table, to buy them their favorite foods or toys. Tell the kids not to distract you, and interact with them only during your scheduled breaks. They can be a big distraction.
4. Avoid your neighbors. Ditto. Too many neighbors assume that if you are at home, you are therefore not working and can discuss the latest football results or can join some neighborhood activity like raising funds for the local school.
5. Take a break! One cannot of course do solid work all the way. The efficiency does reduce over time. The break must be limited to not more than 15minutes each time, or it will take a mighty effort to restart the engine.
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